Digital Man wrote:Even the worst Oasis album has sold more. The reason is because everyone knows Noel is the man, Liam is a nobody who hangs off his older and more talented brothers coat tails
Oasis album sales had been decreasing for years , not b'coz of the songs or quality , but due to the fact that everyone's downloading and sharing files......Cd sales in general for every artist has gone down. The only one's that seem to sell in great quantities are Pop artists like Lady Gaga or Justin Beiber that have massive marketing budgets and backup from their multinational Record Companies.....AND they "kiss a lot of arse"...
Rock bands like Oasis tend to have a window of opportunity that lasts 3 - 5 yrs when they are "fashionable" or "in" or whatever you'd like to call it , this is usually handled by the fickle music press/media who determine what's trendy & what isn't. Oasis's heyday was obviously 94' to 97'...
the first 3 albums sold massively , then SOTSOG though a good album did pretty badly before the revival of of the last 3 albums. WTSMG alone sold more than the last 6 albums combined.......what does that tell you?
If Oasis had released a new album I don't think it would've sold much more than a million if that. Most sales coming from the fanbase. Since the fanbase has been split and since BE are a new band it was kinda expected that their album wasn't going to be MASSIVE. When u take into consideration illegal & legal downloading of the album then u can understand why up to now it's only sold 300K. Keep in mind that they have only just started their assault on Nth America.....so they may sell tens of thousands more copies there. Then they still have Sth America to go , which will be a great market for them (they love British Rock) and the Far East......so when all is said & done I wouldn't be surprised if they pick up another 200k - 300K in sales.....which won't be a bad day in the office...